Screen.



' A. & R. LOMBERK & 0. THERINGER.

SCREEN.

APPLIOATION FILED JUNE 14, 1909.

Patented Jan. 18, 1910.

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UNITED STATES PATENT QFFTQE.

ALOIS LOMBERK, RAIMUND LOMBERK, AND CHARLES THERINGER, 0F NEWARK, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNORS TO EMPIRE SASH & DOOR 00., OF NEWARK, NEW JERSEY, A

CORPORATION OF NEW JERSEY.

SCREEN.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, ALols LOMBERK, R-AIMUND LOMBERK, and CHARLES THER- INGER, citizens of the United States, residing at Newark, in the county of Essex and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Screens; and we do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to figures of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

This invention relates to an improved screen, and is designed to provide a screen that is fitted in rails which are pivoted so that they swing in the window-frame, and it is thus possible to free the ends of the screen rails so that the screen frame can be slid into the rails or from them.

The invention is particularly designed for the outside screens, and the swinging screen rails are arranged to come in line with fixed screen rails so that the screen can be slid the full length of the window-f 'ame so that the windows can be opened from the top or bottom and the opening screened, but the screen must always be slid to the swinging rails before it can be swung and thereby removed from the screen rails.

The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawing, in which- Figure 1 is a face view of a windowframe provided with the improved screen rails and showing a screen therein. Fig. 2 is a cross-section through the windowframe, the sashes and the screen, but showing the rails in elevation. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of one of the screen rails and illustrating its swinging relation to the window-frame.

\Ve have illustrated in the drawing a window-frame 10 which is provided with the usual sashes 11 which are adapted to slide in the frame, and arranged in the window-frame, preferably outside of the sashes, are the rails 12, which rails are pivoted so that they swing so that a screen 13, adapted to slide in the rails, can be slid from the rails 12, and of course-also slid into the rails 12. The preferred way of swinging the Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed June 14, 1909.

Patented J an. 18, 1910.

Serial No. 501,896.

rails 12 is intermediate of their ends, and on a pair of screws 15, one in each rail. The screen 13, when it is in place, holds the opposite screen rails 12 in line, the rails being preferably made of a strip of channeled metal forming the groove 16 into which the screen slides, but this particular form of rail is not essential, and any cross-section of a rail that will coact with the screen to hold the screen in sliding relation thereto can be used.

As shown in dotted outline in Fig. 2, and as shown also in Fig. 3, the rails, when tilted, permit the ready removal or installation of the screen 13. Vhen the screen is placed in the rails, the rails and the screen are swung down to the position shown in full lines in Fig. 2, and also shown in Fig. 1.

\Ve may employ stops 17 to limit the movement of the swinging of the rails and the screen, and which also act to cover cor-- ners where small openings might be left'in the manufacture or installation of the rails and the screens, and through which insects might enter if they were not covered. Fixed rails 18 are placed in the window-frame 10 where they will be in register with the swinging rails 12, when the screen is in sliding position on the window-frame. The screens 18 are secured in place by means of screws 19, or any other well known form of fastening, and the joint 20, between the swinging rails and the fixed rails, is placed at an angle so that enough space will not be left between the rails for insects to pass through when the screen is slid to the top of the frame and the window-sashes are slid to the bottom.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim is 1. The combination of a frame with a pair of screen rails arranged on opposite sides of the frame and arranged in swinging relation, fixed rails on the opposite sides of the frame and normally in register with the swinging rails, the swinging rails extending more than half the length of the frame, and a screen arranged to slide on the rails, being shorter than swinging rails and longer than the fixed rails, whereby the screen locks the swinging rails when the screen is in the fixed rails.

2. The combination of a frame with a pair of screen rails arranged on opposite sides of In testimony, that we claim the foregoing, the "frame and extending more than half We have hereunto set our hands this 10th Way along the frame, fixed rails on opposite day of June 1909. sides of the frame and adapted to be in 1 r 5 register with the swinging rails, the rails all being U-shaped in cross section, and a screen 1 arranged in the grooves, and being shorter CHARLES THERINGLR" than the swinging rails and longer than the Witnesses: fixed ralls, whereby the screen, when in the WM. H. CAMFIELD, 10 fixed rails, locks the swinging ralls. E. A. PELL. 

